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Hannah Fry Books

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Hannah Fry is a British mathematician, author, and broadcaster known for her work on the mathematics of human behavior and complex systems. She lectures at University College London and presents science programs for the BBC.

Known for: Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms, The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation

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Power

To talk about algorithms is inevitably to talk about power. Algorithms don’t exist in isolation; they act with authority. We see this authority clearly when they are woven into the machinery of governance and justice. Governments and corporations deploy algorithms to allocate resources, predict beha...

From Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

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Data

Data is the lifeblood of every algorithm, but it’s also its greatest vulnerability. The phrase 'data-driven' often implies objectivity, yet data is far from neutral. Every dataset is a story about the world as seen through someone’s lens — what counts as worth recording, what gets left out. In my bo...

From Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

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The Geometry of Attraction

We begin with something seemingly simple: where and how we meet. Geometry plays a profound role in attraction, far beyond aesthetics or physical appearance—it influences the very probability of connection. Picture a crowded city, full of people moving through a network of streets and spaces. The clo...

From The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation

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The Statistics of Dating

Dating feels uncertain—an endless sequence of chances, decisions, and missed connections—but statistics can give that uncertainty structure. Probability theory tells us that every romantic encounter is a data point, each decision shaping the distribution of possible outcomes. One of my favorite math...

From The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation

About Hannah Fry

Hannah Fry is a British mathematician, author, and broadcaster known for her work on the mathematics of human behavior and complex systems. She lectures at University College London and presents science programs for the BBC.

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